School: Flower Hill (roll number 12788)
- Location:
- Flower Hill, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Isabel Mc Quade
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0700, Page 308
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- If you have whooping cough you must find a donkey and cut some hair off on the cross on its back. Chop it up and eat it in bread and butter.
- Informant
- Fred Diamond
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Flemingstown, Co. Meath
- Long years ago when the people had sore throats they used to get a sample of honey. They then boiled a few stalks of hore-hound for a certain time and then gave it a good stir, until the mixture was quite dissolved. They then left it by in a bottle for use as an unfailing remedy for sore throats.
- Warts are very usual things to(continues on next page)
